Kerala Congress, Left call for shutdown against rising oil prices

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Last Updated: Fri, Sep 07, 2018 17:19 hrs

Thiruvananthapuram: The ruling Left and
the Congress-led opposition have called for a state-wide shutdown on
September 10 to protest against the rising oil prices, "which the
BJP-led Union government has failed to curb".

A day earlier, the
national leadership of the Congress party called for a nation-wide
protest and on Friday, the state Congress President M.M. Hassan told
reporters here that they have decided to hold it in Kerala from dawn to
dusk.

"We have instructed all our party members that it should
hold a peaceful protest and at no cost should anyone attempt to take law
into their own hands," said Hassan.

On Friday the state
leadership of the CPI-M met here and said they have decided to see that
even while observing a shutdown in the state, the relief operations in
flood-affected areas will go on unaffected and exempted all essential
services form the shutdown.